skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're protecting you from speech, but protecting themselves from it. A murky reputation harms their ad revenue or corporate opportunities, I imagine.
Biden and Putin agree to extend nuclear treaty
"regular cannabis users were more likely to ... not be in a relationship at age 35"

Well this is really a stab to the heart
Why would anyone accept Gamestop stock as compensation for anything right now? Especially when they almost-definitely wouldn't be able to turn around and sell it right away.
I can't see how this study is measuring the harms of regular cannabis use. This is measuring how many people who experienced problems in their early 20s dealt with them. More depression / hard drug use / more likely to take weed daily / etc.

Other headlines they could have used.

Being a relationship doesn't affect your depression / hard drug use / etc

Austrialians start using weed much later in life
So this is the root of cancel culture, right here.

Those that disagree with you are 'uninformed stupid bigots and must be suppressed'.

Take a moment consider why a very progressive person, of enormous goodwill and who's done so much charity work, and is obviously very intelligent would act on bad faith?

So maybe she just sees the world differently as is entitled to her opinion.

These initiatives are as bad as a President usurping the legitimacy of his office to lie about elections.

Stop the radical authoritarianism now.
Academic institutions produce a lot of graduates far faster than replacing the people who run them. If they're not keeping up in skills, which is highly likely due to teaching load and other non technical time consuming tasks, some of them sadly resort to misconduct to hold on to their jobs by faking competence.

A more subtle form of misconduct is not with the technical results, but with fraudulent activities.

A close friend of mine got his professor kicked out due to fraud. Furthermore, the professor was using university research grants to cover expenses of his poorly performing startup via bogus reimbursement claims and was also using the university researchers' labor and results to be products (that unsurprisingly didn't sell and didn't benefit the researchers). All this while the professor is at the comfort of his home even before work-from-home was a thing (because staying at home made transportation tax deduction profitable).

The professor has a habit of plagiarizing his researcher's manuscripts so he can attend miscellaneous conferences (field-trips). In some cases, dropping the researcher from the co-authors of the new plagiarized work. There is a shared excel file of massively self citing scientists shared a couple years back, and that professor is in the list.

As far as the world is concerned, this professor is a prolific scientist with many (last-authored) publications and prestigious talks (that should have been presented by the researchers) who happened to recently "transfer" to a different university and stopped publishing.
I actually have this very TV and I think the smart TV aspects are pretty good, or at least passable, and the smart remote is very nicely engineered. I am sort of a snob with this stuff and just decided to spring for the AppleTV to control everything and to not be at the beck and call of what Samsung thinks is appropriate today especially in terms of ads and interfaces. I love the posh feeling of the Apple UI and it just feels so much more premium to me and cutting edge. With Samsung I feel like I'm in "Android world" where anything goes and no one really cares about polish too much as much as shipping the app and checking off a list of requirements. QA, performance, etc always feel so much worse in Smart TV land. I figure I only buy a new TV or box every 5+ years, so its okay to spend more to be happy. Over 60 months its really not a lot of money if you view it as a monthly expense.

I want it to "just work" and to me Apple seems to do that well enough. I do feel like if money was tighter I would have just toughed it out with the Samsung interface and been mostly happy. Currently, I do find myself cursing at how overly sensitive the Apple remote is and how tiny and easy it is to lose. Buying a white gel cover and setting sensitivity to low helped with this a lot, but that's just more money down the sink compared to just not being a snob and using the built-in system.
The contrast between the discussions around the social media study posted earlier[1] and this study is pretty interesting. I guess it's only causal if it confirms one's priors?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25928310
Ah, apologies, I didn't mean to be a wise ass!

I agree /r/wallstreetbets is hard to grasp :P I'm just along for the ride
I grew up in a place where nearly everyone smoked weed. It was more associated with your ability to socialize than any kind of psychological issue.

This was an affluent suburb of a Canadian city.
I think it proves it in the sense that hedge fund do this kind of stuff all the time and no one ever hears about it, because those kinds of money-making strategies are what we expect of them.
u got some nice racism going on here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25936932
strapi comes to mind
https://strapi.io/write-for-the-community
Maybe for ranitidine, but for the ARBs (common blood pressure treatment drugs) that are a few decades old, the NMxA source was sourced from a new synthetic route and that's when they appeared in the drug supply: "It believes there has been NDMA contamination in those drugs for up to four years."

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=fcf817fe-192b...

> Ultimately, scientists traced the contamination back to a change in valsartan’s synthesis. The antihypertensive drug contains a tetrazole ring, which is an aromatic five-membered ring with one carbon atom and four nitrogens. For many years, the synthesis for this compound, developed by Novartis, used tributyltin azide to form the tetrazole, with xylene as a solvent. However, in 2014, China’s Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical, which makes valsartan for some companies, filed a patent for an improved method for forming the tetrazole ring.

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/pharmaceutical-chemicals...
howd you get 21.5b? trying to run the #'s here
Everybody I know has fun using drugs.

A couple of alcoholics who have had to dry out the alcohol, and nicotine has gotten a lot of victims around here, but generally recreational drugs (particularly MDMA, Cannabis, and LSD) are a huge boon.

The biggest danger is the police, but they are reforming and relaxing.

People use drugs because they are good. They are not idiots
I’m not convinced that the economics work like this. Suppose there are n real shares, i.e. longs - shorts = n. A short squeeze happens if the number of shorts exceeds the number of long shares that aren’t trying to squeeze the shorts. That’s longs - squeezers < shorts. Rearranging gives n < squeezers. So the short holders are in trouble if the number of squeezing shares exceeds the number that actually exist.

Imagine there’s a near-squeeze situation, and someone shorts more shares. This drives the price down, which makes it less expensive for squeezers to buy shares, which exacerbates the problem.

This is complicated by margin calls and their institutional equivalents. This cuts both ways. Enough downward price pressure could cause some longs to get margin called. But more shorting also means more danger.

If I were the SEC, I would consider restricting the total short interest to a fixed fraction of total outstanding shares to improve market stability. I don’t know whether this would be a good policy overall.
Also use of an illegal substance can lead to legal consequences that can harm one's employability for years afterward.

So if pot weren't illegal in Australia during the period being examined, perhaps their life outcomes would have been better?
Funny you should mention that, I'm watching that too, and I can't wait until that's to the point where it's just as easy and seamless to get something up and running in django or a similar framework, while also having all the advantages of a frontend application and a backend one. Hotwire does look very intriguing to me.

I think overall we need a new wave of backend frameworks with what we've learned in the past decade. I'm hoping it's in python or clojure, but my guess is it's going to be in javascript (see react server components for one potential contender).
If anyone wants to learn more about this, or is struggling with this themselves, I'd highly recommend looking up the talks of Dr Gabor Mate.

He is trained as a medical doctor, but has learnt a lot about the psychology of addiction from his own experiences and those of patients. He worked in a drug treatment center in Vancouver and one of the things he often says is that of all the hard drug users he has seen, those who are female were all sexually abused as children.

His viewpoint is that addiction itself is not a problem - contrary to what the media would like you to believe - it's merely the minds way of dealing with whatever other traumas have been going on in your life. (When he talks about addiction he is not just talking about drugs, but all forms, including why you check HN every 20 minutes :D)

Applying that to this article implies this is just correlation, those who start smoking weed at a young age do it to cope with other traumas in their life, but they never deal with the trauma so move on to other coping mechanisms.
This is their strength: You know a PDF will not shift its presentation due to device changes. PDFs from when the PDF was created still work right today. And they still look the same.
In the short term, how are you getting access to this medicine? Having your friends ship it in from abroad?
Fully agree with you here. I remember it being drilled into my head in middle school science class that "correlation does not imply causation," which seems to have been forgotten or ignored when writing these headlines.
> this study is bullshit

> Regular use of anything, particularly if it's mind altering, is likely to cause harmful long term effects

Your argument that the study is bullshit is frankly no better.
So I think you do actually have it right. That's why you'll see careful commenters in this thread referring to "synthetic shares", which are like normal shares but come with that risk that you don't get it back. Except, if I understand correctly there are also laws around shorts which say that you are required to have the money to cover the share, which helps diminish the risk.
Just make 5 accounts and report the subreddit for hate speech. Works every time.
Question: Can GameStop actually turn this into cash and maybe buy a game studio to be long term profitable?
Speaking hypothetically I feel this kind of thing is on the scale of self driving cars.

There needs to be a secondary break through in ML for progress or you need magnitudes of more data then is available on earth to make this even viable.
Definitely.

Around drugs there is no dispassionate reasoning these days.
Just the fact that it's illegal in Australia puts a huge asterisk on these results.
Doesn't negate what?

If you ask "How much does a car cost?" The answer is not "Here are some articles about people buying Lamborghinis that cost $250,000".

Most people are using a middle of the road 1.5 T machine.

https://lbnmedical.com/how-much-does-an-mri-machine-cost/
> But, if you go back and read the seminal papers, it's clear that the common thread is encapsulation, every bit as much as referential transparency is the core idea that unites all the seminal work in functional programming. The idea was that programs would be decomposed into modules that were empowered to make their own decisions about what code to execute in response to some instruction. And that this was supposed to liberate the programmer from needing to micro-manage a bunch of state manipulation. Not by eliminating state, as is the ideal in FP, but by delegating the responsibility to manage it.

I agree with that assessment, but I also think the problems with OO are inherent to that paradigm, and it's time to acknowledge that the paradigm is bad and has failed.
I have run a web forum for 15 or so years. There are often threads or comments I think should remain up, but that legal pressure pushes me to remove. There's "I think this is probably fair in a legal sense" and "I think this is probably fair in a legal sense and I'm willing to gamble my family's assets/wellbeing on proving that in court for the benefit of random forum users that don't care about me for a second."
I think a few hedge fund managers might be about to learn about Schelling points in a very visceral way.
You may want to click the link at the bottom of the article ;)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dar.13239
I remember reading somewhere a claim that the initial development of the (a?) mRNA vaccine was basically over a weekend; the testing and scaling to manufacture took the rest of the time.
A lot of science is dismissed here with a "sample size too small" complaint. That's usually invalid... power depends on sample size and effect size together.

But the problem with observational studies is real, especially here. Let's complain about that and also investigate childhood trauma and regular cannabis use.
I like this term just because it seems like it's got a lot more common lately to do this.
> (squinting suspiciously) ... exactly why did they get taken down? The Algorithm has a well-earned reputation for being capricious, but there's also a ton of good-sounding bullshit out there.

Theories abound, but most/all of these platforms don't have to provide an explanation, and the end-user has little to no recourse on the natter: so far its been youtube, patreon and facebook none of which have followed up. Here is Josiah on an alt platform (odysee) explaining the situation through his eyes [0].

It's sad to see a pioneer of Biohacking dismissing p2p solutions like torrenting and even Bitcoin in order to bypass the censorship, but I think a lot of this just has to do with the clunky nature of its former or perhaps even current UI/UX for people with limited time or attention or familiarity with tech solutions, especially since it was so easy to use Youtube to distribute your content with just a simple click.

I honestly could have him up and running in a day or two with a solution just in case Paypal does in fact shut him down, that would interface with Fiat/CC payment upfront and convert into BTC if needed: the reason BTC is needed is because paypal or bank accounts can shut you out of your funds if you are already a target. It would mainly be a settlements network and only be slightly more steps than what he is used to, as well. But he is right about volatility as that cannot be helped as of right now.

I kind of want to reach out, but I'm dealing with more than I want at the moment due to COVID in my family, but its something I'm considering because Josiah is such a massive inspiration to us Biohackers that deplatforming from the big platforms should be the canary in the coal mine. They even shut down his Patreon!

0: https://odysee.com/@BiohackThePlanet:3/biohack-the-planet-wi...
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In the 1970s there was the Shaffer (sp?) study in Jamacia.

Since then there have been hundreds of studies.

Generally cannabis, and recreational drugs generally, have not much in the way of negative measurable effects.

Remember it is only good drugs that have to be banned: There are no laws (generally) against Atrpine (datura), digitalis (foxglove) et. el. Just the good, fun, safe drugs have to have laws against them.
I disagree because math is too vast and ill defined a field for any claim that anyone can be good or bad at all of it to be taken seriously.

In high school, I was one of those people who spent tons of time and energy on it, and failed miserably, barely graduating as a result. It wasn't until I was about 25 when I picked up a basic algebra and trigonometry book on a whim and started self-teaching, that it began making sense to me. I eventually went back to school for pure math.

In my case, I think what helped me as an adult was the freedom to learn on my own terms without the pressure of deadlines, and also a strong support network of friends encouraging me (compare with my teachers in high school who would actively embarrass me in front of the class or joke about their low expectations of me). And of course, some years of life experience in the real world doing things that were actually hard compared to (elementary) math as someone of limited means helped a bit too.

So, all of that is to say that people who struggle in math classes struggle for different reasons. I suspect that much of the time the dominating forces are psychosocial, cultural, or plain & simple lack of interest (which itself might be driven by traumatic experiences with shitty teachers or parents with weird expectations)
People who buy one of every livestock, then sell shares of that bundle.

(index funds, for example)
It's not, and for the record I said "gay bear", not just "gay". For that matter, if pressed I would identify as pansexual. The intent is that it's not meant to be degrading.

Please don't go looking for people to be bad guys - maybe instead assume good intent. You don't have to nit everything people say to find something to prove them wrong. You didn't focus on anything I was communicating - you tried to pick an argument with the smallest aspect of the thread.
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It's all state-by-state, store-by-store. It's possible that those walgreens are not administering vaccines yet, or the state hasn't rolled out a program with walgreens.

Also, the app was built and launched in the last few days, so if you can confirm that those walgreens are indeed offering vaccines, and show up when going through the registration process on the website, please let me know and I'll look into it.
We've experimentally reproduced a similar effect in mice [1].

Mice who "underwent cognitive training [and] received rewards while exploring a training arena" reduced "one measure of drug-seeking behavior" in comparison with those who "remained in their home cages." The researchers conclude, right in the abstract, that "deprivation may confer vulnerability to drug-seeking behavior and that brief interventions may promote long-term resilience."

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00283...
So why are we legalizing it all over the US?
> The reason for this rally is clearly activistic in nature, an attempt to bankrupt the hedge funds who engage in vulture capitalism.

That's a fun rally cry that happens to be true, but even if it wasn't true and the conditions existed naturally, these WSB folks just spotted an opportunity to make money and jumped on it like anyone else. Activism is just trash talk like much of this subreddit has always been.
I can't answer most of your questions, but I think I can answer the voting part.

There are 100 shares, Alice owns all of them, but loans them all to Bob so Bob can short them. Bob sells all of them to Charlie.

So Alice owns 100 shares and Charlie owns 100 shares even though only 100 real shares exist. (Bob owns -100 shares.) But Alice can't use her shares for voting because she loaned them out, only Charlie can vote.
Public school anti-drug programs told kids that cannabis use often leads to other drugs, and also said that it would make you peal your skin off to get rid of the spiders.

They casually mixed truth with lies to create the most frightening narrative possible. But once the lies became apparent, everything they ever claimed came into doubt.
replied in the comment above. thanks for the note
Then all you get is people asking why they were downvoted. IMO downvoting should include a comment if one doesn't already exist sufficiently explaining your reason for downvoting.

That doesn't mean it needs to turn into a discussion if they defend themselves, but I think some indication of why is almost always warranted.
Yes, from what I read, he cashed in about $13 million.
That doesn’t require bank accounts at the Fed.
It has benefits but also obviously drawbacks.

Ambien is not available in Canada for example.

One of the things about hard negotiations is that sometimes the other side will call the bluff and walk away.

And of course in rationed systems you don't get things that 'the masters' decide you don't need, like Ambien.

In the case of Ambien, I don't care, I question the real medical value of it, but you can see how that could get out of hand with other things.

It would better to solve the 're-import' problem with better regulation - and of course, initiatives such as the the MC Company here.

I think the Cleveland Clinic and some others like it are technically non-profits, there are models that work.
In don’t know your zip but I’m deeply concerned that my neighborhood which is predominantly more vulnerable has no sites available.
Except in Pythonland, "explicit is better than implicit"

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
The backing buffers are not so much copied as shared.

A client application allocates backing surfaces (wl-egl does this for you for simple cases) and renders into them. When you call swap buffers, it sends a handle to the client's backing surface to the server via IPC.

Honestly that's one of the most amazing things about wayland, or more specifically the improvements in the Linux graphics stack over the last decade. Offscreen rendering is now implicitly supported, along with being able to share references to buffers on hardware devices between processes, rather than something like ANGLE, where the opengl commands themselves were sent between processes.
It's literally impossible for it all to be retail money.

What I think people are missing is that in about a month we'll find that "Wallstreetbets" and "retail" were also other fund managers like Ackman.

This is not the first time one fund manager messed up with their short and got absolutely eaten up by other fund managers (see, famously, Herbalife where Ackman and Icahn were direct adversaries). Melvin Capital clearly messed up - their losses exceed any reasonable risk-managed short position and it's clear there was some naked shorting in there because you cannot lost 30% of your fund in a week unless you're being reckless.

The media - in classic post-Trumpian mentality - is just fabricating a reality about market insurrections, how male traders are incels, or how Trumpism has spread into the market. The reality is we're witnessing another classic short squeeze between fund managers - and sure - retail got in on this one too, but they are at best a spark, rather than the gun powder.